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Western Carolines: the island of Yap
Boletín • 34 • Published In 1893 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1, 30 leaves [original: 251-279 ]
By: Montes de Oca, José.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief ethnographic account of the people of the island of Yap. The author apparently was a Spanish government official who has attempted to record the everyday life and culture of the Yap people. Because Spain had just opened a factory on Yap, this ethnographic survey was probably done in order to increase Spanish knowledge and understanding of these people, thereby creating a favorable economic relationship between Spain and Yap. The information includes the physical characteristics of the island, climate, fauna and flora, population composition, material culture, economy, social and political organization, and religion. Montes de Oca also includes a very brief historical summary of Yap from 1696 through 1870.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Maps
- Culture summary
- Climate
- Flora
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Dwellings
- Public structures
- Medium of exchange
- Territorial hierarchy
- Religious beliefs
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yapese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Heather Fellows ; John Beierle ; 1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- José Montes de Oca
- Translation of: [Carolinas Occidentales. la isla de Yap]
- 'Slaves' are indexed for for Slavery (566)
- Translated from the German in 1942 for the Yale Cross-Cultural Survey in connection with the Navy Pacific Islands Handbook Project
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)